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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 7 · Women's Past Deeds
स्त्रीकर्मकथनम्
॥ ईश्वर उवाच ॥नारीणां शृणु मे सर्वं यत्कृतं पूर्वजन्मनि ॥ततोऽहं संप्रवक्ष्यामि समासेन वरानने ॥ २ ॥
Ishvara (Shiva) said: Listen, O fair-faced one, to all that women did in a past life. Then I will tell it briefly.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पूर्वजन्मनि या नारी पतिनिन्दां चकार ह ॥
In a past life a woman spoke ill of her husband, O Goddess. For that sin she never has her monthly periods.
यदा रौप्यस्य वै वृक्षं स्वाङ्गुष्ठपरिमाणकम् ॥
Say she gives a silver tree the size of her thumb, O Goddess, weighing five pala (a unit of weight). She gives it to a Veda scholar, dear one.
तदा पुष्पं भवेद्देवि नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥
Then her periods come. Have no doubt about it. She left her sleeping husband and loved another man. (Our text is unclear here: the word read as…